2 Maccabees 7:20

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2 Maccabees 7:20 (WEB)
But above all, the mother was marvelous and worthy of honorable memory; for when she watched seven sons perishing within the space of one day, she bore the sight with a good courage because of her hope in the Lord.

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Ambrose of Milan, On the Duties of the Clergy I.41Book I
“What shall I say of the mother who with joy looked on the corpses of her children as so many trophies, and found delight in the voices of her dying sons, as though in the songs of singers,…” — editor's note: 2 Macc. vii. 20.
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Matthew 2:16
Cited together in On the Duties of the Clergy I.41.
1 Maccabees 9:8
Cited together in On the Duties of the Clergy I.41.
1 Maccabees 11:68
Cited together in On the Duties of the Clergy I.41.

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